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[Engine house at Delaware Water Works] [graphic].
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Contributor
McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
PA. Philadelphia. 1860.
Birkinbine, Henry P.M., engineer.
Title
[Engine house at Delaware Water Works] [graphic].
Publisher
Philadelphia
Date
ca. 1860
Physical Description
1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 17 cm.(3.25 x 6.75 in.)
Description
View showing the engine house at the Delaware Water Works, formerly the Kensington Water Works, at the foot of Wood Street (i.e., Susquehanna Avenue) near the Delaware River. The waterworks, completed in 1852, provided water for the district of Kensington. Also shows laborers working on a raised platform near piles of wood planks in front of the building.
Notes
Title supplied by cataloguer.
Manuscript note on accompanying label: Philadelphia Water Works. "Engine House." Delaware Works. H.P.M. Birkinbine Chief Engr.
Buff mount with square corners.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject
Delaware Water Works (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Waterworks -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Construction -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Delaware River (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.)
Susquehanna Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre
Albumen prints -- 1850-1860.
Stereographs -- 1850-1860.
Associated name
Birkinbine, Henry P.M., engineer.
Associated name
PA. Philadelphia.
Provenance
McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - unidentified - Public Utilities [(8)1322.F.3c]
Accession number
(8)1322.F.3c
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